BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - OT--Charged with lying about a crime that wasn't committed?

In article . net,
says...

"jps" wrote in message
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His testimony doesn't square with his own notes, contemporaneously
recorded when Cheney told him about Valerie Plame.

He testified that Russert told him about Plame...not the other way around.

And his notes show that Cheney told him about Plame at least several
weeks prior to Russert.

He also testified that he told Russert that he didn't know it to be true or
not. Did he lie to Russert? Perhaps.

Who care? Folks in this administration lie all the time.

Did he lie to Fitzgerald? Maybe

Oh yeah. Sho enoff.

not. But is it a crime to lie to a news reporter?

No, and he's not being charged for lying to a news reporter. He's being
charged for lying to the investigators of the leak.

Especially a reporter who
is fishing for a story by pretending to know the answer to the questions
he's asking?

Oh jeez, Scooter went to college and became a lawyer. He's been at the
top of his game for quite some time. You feel sorry for him because a
reporter asked him leading questions?

Whew.

I expect our president is that stupid but not the folks surrounding him.

jps